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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | HB
turned to a different publisher for her second autobiographical volume, Unbroken Thread: an Intimate Journal of the Daily Life in the Welsh Countryside of England's Best-loved Woman Novelist. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. |
Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | HB
published a third volume of memoirs, The Miracle Stone of Wales, a semi-mystical work which is classified in the catalogue of the Bodleian Library
as mental healing. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite
and Armiger Barclay
was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library
catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is... |
Textual Production | Lady Anne Barnard | Her South African writings are only the most striking of a huge mass of LAB
's personal narratives. At the end of her life she worked hard to burn and put my papers in order... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aphra Behn | AB
's biographer Janet Todd identifies Amyntas, her London lover after her Antwerp period, as Jeffrey Boys
, a young lawyer. He called her Astrea. His diary for 1667, now in the Bodleian Library |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | AB
's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use... |
Reception | Anna Maria Bennett | The Critical Review thought this the first of AMB
's novels to achieve excellence. This time, it said, the intricate story was well woven (at least in the first two volumes) and the plot and... |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
published her second poetry collection within two years, Vignettes: in Verse The Bodleian Library
has no copy of this publication. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Susanna Blamire | Before the appearance of the first volume of her work, nearly fifty years after her death, SB
was to some extent known for her songs. Often, however, the songs (some in English and some in... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | Apart from her papers at the British Library
, MB
left a commonplace-book at the Bodleian Library
, Oxford. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 38 |
Textual Production | Enid Blyton | The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories. Her biographer Barbara Stoney
gives the title as Enid Blyton Magazine... |
Author summary | Enid Blyton | EB
was probably the most prolific and successful children's writer of the twentieth century. In three decades she produced more than four hundred titles: picture-books for small children, fairy stories, adventure stories, school stories, fantasy... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Boulger | Many of them flag through their titles the fact that their pivotal roles belong to women, in a way that suggests they were intended for a mostly female audience. Such titles include two which look... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | Muriel
and Sydney Box
, her lover and future husband, together published a volume entitled Ladies Only: Six One-act Plays with All-women Casts. The date comes from the Bodleian Library
's acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
and Sydney Box
published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film. Date from Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald. prelims |
Timeline
August 2005: Google's plans for massive digitization of...
Writing climate item
August 2005
Google
's plans for massive digitization of printed books for reading online were temporarily halted by threats of litigation in the USA.
19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...
Building item
19 February 2007
Sarah Thomas
, an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University
's Bodleian Library
(opened on 8 November 1602).
7 March 2008: Julian Blackwell, head of Blackwell's bookshop...
Building item
7 March 2008
Julian Blackwell
, head of Blackwell's
bookshop and publishing firm, made a five million pound donation to Oxford University
's Bodleian Library
, the largest ever to a university library in the UK.
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